JT
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Re: My amateurview of math.
Posted:
Feb 1, 2013 4:04 AM
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On 1 Feb, 09:59, "christian.bau" <christian....@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Feb 1, 8:51 am, JT <jonas.thornv...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Well just my few thoughts around numbers.
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> Go to your bathroom.
> Count how many elephants there are.
> How many? The answer is zero.
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> If you watch an elephant leaving your bathroom, how many elephants are
> in the bathroom then?
> There were none, then one left, so now there are minus one elephants
> in your bathroom.
If there is zero elephants i hardly need to count it or them.
Well if you show me the negative elephant i will count it.
But rather say i have 1 dollar in wallet, and you steal it and i am
simply out of money but there isn't minus 1 dollar in wallet. But you
do owe me 1 dollar and i have a claim upon you.
And that is do not dream up things that aren't countable.
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